EasyPopulate 4.0 Support Thread

[mc12345678]

Had the ability to start edting the above, but figured I would run out of time. I expect there to be comments that everything ought to be possible in a single upload, but there are some aspects that when working with multiple tables and many, many, many rows of data at once take an inordinate amount of time to process. Even EP4 has a file split operation to allow upload of multiple products as a result of the breadth and processing power (time) needed to import so many rows into so many tables. Yes some have been able to increase the number of rows by decreasing the number of fields (for other reasons as well) but there are still limits.

[mesnitu]

Never had used the featured file.
But I thought that would import, cause there's a import button, and all the status fields... so, this file should not be imported ? Or is just to change dates ?

I meant deleting a featured product, not the product itself.... I think the featured as it's own relation.

[mesnitu]

Nop, sorry for the dumb question, I've check the import section for the featured file, and it's all there.
If I have them active, I can set them to 0 . But from 0 status to 1 .... no.
But, again, has I'm using the books fields, probably something is not right.
I'll check that later.

[mc12345678]

It's basically date based. Factors involved are starting date, ending date and current date. Other fields are present to aid the "reader". Do YOU know what products_id 189 is? Maybe as one that manages the ZC data all the time you might, but someone that works in "the store" doing inventory or selling an item, more than likely they know it by it's name or description.

At any rate, the code works like this: if the available date for the featured item is less than the current date and the current date is less than the end/expire date, then the product is turned "on" during import with ZC taking over the remaining on/off controls, if the current date is before the start date or after the end date then as written EP4 will turn off the featured item. That said, the test probably should be if it is after the end date but the end date isn't "empty" (0001-01-01) then turn it off, after all if someone wants a product to *always* be featured after some point, then that would seem like the date to use, but probably also need to look at how ZC accomplishes this before making that change.

Anyways, that's a brief description of the operation. This is not "product type" specific meaning that using bookx or not, the core EP4 code works as described above, though it does look like it could use some minor improvements in this area. (More for Version 4.0.35 :) )